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A Look at Necessary Files

A Look at Necessary Files

Learn how to modify the code of a React application.

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What’s in index.html?

The file public/index.html is mainly known for being a ghost-town. In contrast to websites based on static pages, there’s nothing of substance in it. All of the content will be dynamically populated by the React framework.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en"> 
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <link rel="icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <meta name="theme-color" content="#000000" />
    <meta
      name="description"
      content="Web site created using create-react-app"
      />
      <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/logo192.png" /> 
      <link rel="manifest" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/manifest.json" /> 
      <title>React App</title>
</head> 
<body>
  <noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
  <div id="root"></div> </body>
</html>

This file is a sort of template in two senses.

  • First, the tag %PUBLIC_URL% will be replaced with the right directory before it goes live. To see the effect of the pre-processor, we can run npm run build. This creates the directory and build, which will include the processed version of index.html. In that file, for example, %PUBLIC_URL% has been replaced by a path. More notably, two “minified” scripts have been added by the pre-processing done by React that is the webpack.

  • The second sense in which the file is a template is found in this snippet: ...